1984 Ending Essay

Winston’s ending is shocking and interesting. The Party focuses on fixing its people rather than disposing of them. Winston craved to be something other than another droid the brainwashed population. His craving was his undoing. While off finagling with Julia, Winston’s confidence in the Brotherhood and rebellion grew. His unabridged trust for strangers led to Winston’s capture and symbolic death. The Ministry of Peace and O’Brien destroyed any piece of Winston that craved to be different or asked questions. They effectively brought him down to the level of a normal citizen of Oceania. These citizens are “emptied of a sense of history and of memory of the past,” making them blindly trust the fickle government (Varricchio). Winston’s identity was embedded in his …show more content…
He does not receive the personal time that was common to him in the Reservation while growing up. According to critic Mario Varricchio, the society was “denying individuals their own privacy and personal feelings” (Varricchio). By doing this, the World State is able to conform its subjects to the standard of always wanting to be with one another. This took away any ability for the subjects to effectively form their own opinions and ideas. However, those were two things that John relied upon. John sought out solitude, seeing it as a better option than being constantly watched by the people in the World State. The people, however, see John’s longing for solitude as a peculiar attribute, and go to see him more. He soon becomes more of a zoo attraction than a person. John’s death at the end of the book signifies the death of individuality. His yearning for personal time and introspection was the thing that caused the people to seek him out. This increased oddity made John more interesting. These spectators ended up signing John’s suicide note. Dying became the last thing that John could do that was entirely his own